Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] KVM: arm64: Correctly handle the mmio faulting | From | Gavin Shan <> | Date | Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:04:51 +1100 |
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Hi Santosh,
On 10/26/20 10:24 PM, Santosh Shukla wrote: > The Commit:6d674e28 introduces a notion to detect and handle the > device mapping. The commit checks for the VM_PFNMAP flag is set > in vma->flags and if set then marks force_pte to true such that > if force_pte is true then ignore the THP function check > (/transparent_hugepage_adjust()). > > There could be an issue with the VM_PFNMAP flag setting and checking. > For example consider a case where the mdev vendor driver register's > the vma_fault handler named vma_mmio_fault(), which maps the > host MMIO region in-turn calls remap_pfn_range() and maps > the MMIO's vma space. Where, remap_pfn_range implicitly sets > the VM_PFNMAP flag into vma->flags. > > Now lets assume a mmio fault handing flow where guest first access > the MMIO region whose 2nd stage translation is not present. > So that results to arm64-kvm hypervisor executing guest abort handler, > like below: > > kvm_handle_guest_abort() --> > user_mem_abort()--> { > > ... > 0. checks the vma->flags for the VM_PFNMAP. > 1. Since VM_PFNMAP flag is not yet set so force_pte _is_ false; > 2. gfn_to_pfn_prot() --> > __gfn_to_pfn_memslot() --> > fixup_user_fault() --> > handle_mm_fault()--> > __do_fault() --> > vma_mmio_fault() --> // vendor's mdev fault handler > remap_pfn_range()--> // Here sets the VM_PFNMAP > flag into vma->flags. > 3. Now that force_pte is set to false in step-2), > will execute transparent_hugepage_adjust() func and > that lead to Oops [4]. > } > > The proposition is to set force_pte=true if kvm_is_device_pfn is true. > > [4] THP Oops: >> pc: kvm_is_transparent_hugepage+0x18/0xb0 >> ... >> ... >> user_mem_abort+0x340/0x9b8 >> kvm_handle_guest_abort+0x248/0x468 >> handle_exit+0x150/0x1b0 >> kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x4d4/0x778 >> kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x3c0/0x858 >> ksys_ioctl+0x84/0xb8 >> __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x28/0x38 > > Tested on Huawei Kunpeng Taishan-200 arm64 server, Using VFIO-mdev device. > Linux-5.10-rc1 tip: 3650b228 > > Fixes: 6d674e28 ("KVM: arm/arm64: Properly handle faulting of device mappings") > Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <sashukla@nvidia.com> > --- > v2: > - Per Marc's suggestion - setting force_pte=true. > - Rebased and tested for 5.10-rc1 commit: 3650b228 > > v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/10/21/460 > > arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) >
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c > index 19aacc7..d4cd253 100644 > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c > @@ -839,6 +839,7 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa, > > if (kvm_is_device_pfn(pfn)) { > device = true; > + force_pte = true; > } else if (logging_active && !write_fault) { > /* > * Only actually map the page as writable if this was a write >
Cheers, Gavin
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